TV Recaps

Oh, boy. That was a lot, right? I can’t even begin to imagine how many viewers were left heartbroken by Volume 2 of When Life Gives You Tangerines.

Sometimes a show like The Potato Lab comes along and works almost in spite of itself. It’s an odd phenomenon.

Yellowjackets Season 3 felt like it was starting to get going in the previous episode, even though it was lacking those big, key developments.

You’ve got to appreciate Surface taking some chances in Season 2, even if the results might end up being a little mixed.

For the first time in Season 2, Severance delivered what many would consider to be a bad episode.

In many ways, Episode 6 of Reacher Season 3 is a payoff to the excellent fourth episode. That was where you really felt the menace of Xavier Quinn, the season’s Big Bad who has largely been developed through absence and implication.

It’s sometimes easy to forget that Matt Murdock is a lawyer since most of the justice he dispenses comes via his fists.

I was blindsided that we were offered a filler episode after the emotional ending in the last episode. But Mythic Quest Season 4, Episode 8 is decent, even if it does not move the story forward.

The White Lotus is always about a murder. Season 3 is potentially about several; we know this because the premiere featured a bunch of gunshots and at least one floating corpse.

This is more like it. Not to say, “I told you so”, obviously, but after an episode that let conventionality creep in, to its detriment, The Hunting Party really gets back on the right track in Episode 6.

Bad news – the dead brother is back. And this is no offense to Carson Egan, who plays Eddie Black perfectly well.

“The Man with the Glowing Chest” isn’t about a man with a glowing chest, though one does briefly feature.

There’s an easy charm to The Potato Lab that feels like alchemy; narrative gold from leaden rom-com tropes.

America is the land of opportunity. It’s also, apparently, the land of thieves, sexual deviants, racists, judgy bureaucrats, and very long-winded travel options.

I get it. I get why The Potato Lab works, and it’s a surprisingly obvious realization, highlighted really capably by Episode 3.

Ever proving that there’s more than one way to skin a cat – or, in this case, air a K-Drama – Netflix elected to release When Life Gives You Tangerines, the expensively-produced IU-starring drama doubling as a love letter to Jeju Island, in four four-part volumes.

It’s clear that Yellowjackets Season 3 has entered more exciting territory now. And yes, I agree it’s about time.

Surface Season 2 hasn’t been very good, at least not if you ask me, but Episode 3, “Kintsugi”, provides an interesting turning point.